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Nothing is meaningless it’s how we assign meaning to the past that determines how we experience the present, and future.

Bill Crawford

There are two ways to look at most problems… ‘Oh Crap!’ or, ‘Good Information!,’ and our choice will give us good information on how to deal with problems in the future.
BILL CRAWFORD

Choices Giving Two
Family is the place where acceptance and validation are most needed, but often the hardest to find.
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Acceptance Hardest Validation
Never define people or situations in terms of their effect on you, unless you want to give them the power to make you feel that way.
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Giving People Want
Peace of Mind? Don’t leave home (or go home) without it.
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Happened Home Mind Peace
You never want to tie your responsibility to another’s irresponsibility.
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Responsibility Ties Want
The problem with lethargy is that doing nothing validates the fear that nothing can be done.
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Doing Done Nothing Problem
One key to successful relationships is learning to say “no” without guilt, so that you can say “yes” without resentment.
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Guilt Keys Successful
Problems occur when we tie our peace of mind to another’s state of mind.
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Mind Problem Ties
Diversity, or the state of being different, isn’t the same as inclusion. One is a description of what is, while the other describes a style of interaction essential to effective teams and organizations.
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Diversity Organization Team
Worry, shame, and fear can’t be the energy with which we deal with food and weight. It only spurs us to eat more food and produce more glucose/sugar which gets stored as fat.
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Energy Shame Spurs Worry
To influence others, we must know what is influencing them… and they must know that we get it.
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Influence Knows Others People
Regardless of what is being discussed . . . the issue is never more important than the quality of the interaction.
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Important Issues Quality
To understand ourself, we must understand our “selves,” or the parts of us that motivate our thoughts, decisions, and behaviors.
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Behavior Decision Self
Holding on to painful images of the past in order to avoid painful experiences in the future serves only to color the present with pain.
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Order Pain Painful Past Serve
The cooperative, creative, and flexible parts of your children reside in the joyful part of their brain.
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Brain Children Creative
When our purpose becomes avoidance, our life becomes a void.
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Lives Our Purpose Void

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